WestonGroup
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Dell Mouse wheel issue
This just recently started to happen
I think it might be a virus
Whenever i'm int a website and I use the mouse roller to scroll up and down any applications I have open that are minimized at the bottom of my screen start to shake and flicker and the webpages start to jump all over the place, up a page, back a page....
if I just point and click, or use the slide bar by pointing, clicking and dragging it doesn't happen.
only when I use the wheel on the mouse?
I think its probably an internet explorer error or some type of adware, maleware, virus?
What do you think?
I think it might be a virus
Whenever i'm int a website and I use the mouse roller to scroll up and down any applications I have open that are minimized at the bottom of my screen start to shake and flicker and the webpages start to jump all over the place, up a page, back a page....
if I just point and click, or use the slide bar by pointing, clicking and dragging it doesn't happen.
only when I use the wheel on the mouse?
I think its probably an internet explorer error or some type of adware, maleware, virus?
What do you think?
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Justin Collins
Is your Shift Key stuck by chance? Because if you hold your shift key and scroll it will scroll through open windows.
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ok swapped the mouse out and it still does it
it doesn't funnel though the open programs....it funnels back and forth through webpages
the open programs just start to flickers
it doesn't funnel though the open programs....it funnels back and forth through webpages
the open programs just start to flickers
By the looks of it, you have got a low of Poker spyware on your computer. These are sometimes installed with the software from Party Poker, but I wouldn't recommend that you keep them. Try going into Add/Remove programs and removing things which you think may be spyware - such as 'Smiley Central', 'Party Poker' etc, before using the spyware removal tools below.
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CCleaner: http://www.download.com/CCleaner/3000-2144_4-10547048.html?tag=lst-0-1
Ad-Aware SE Personal: http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10399602.html?tag=lst-0-1
Spyware - Search & Destroy: http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/1200-2023_4-5157428.html?tag=antispy
SpywareBlaster: http://www.download.com/SpywareBlaster/3000-8022_4-10486084.html?tag=lst-3-9
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Try them all, and hopefully it should remove the problem for the spyware.
After, try fixing the known 'nasties' found in your HijackThis log file. Remember not to remove the ones that you know, or think, are good.
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CCleaner: http://www.download.com/CCleaner/3000-2144_4-10547048.html?tag=lst-0-1
Ad-Aware SE Personal: http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10399602.html?tag=lst-0-1
Spyware - Search & Destroy: http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/1200-2023_4-5157428.html?tag=antispy
SpywareBlaster: http://www.download.com/SpywareBlaster/3000-8022_4-10486084.html?tag=lst-3-9
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Try them all, and hopefully it should remove the problem for the spyware.
After, try fixing the known 'nasties' found in your HijackThis log file. Remember not to remove the ones that you know, or think, are good.
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ASKER
Party poker isn't installed on my computer,
I have those programs listed above and ran them prior to asking experts so I know that didn't fix the problem
I have those programs listed above and ran them prior to asking experts so I know that didn't fix the problem
Dear WestonGroup,
I assumed that it was recently installed, but not correctly removed due to the entry displayed below:
O9 - Extra button: PartyPoker.com - {B7FE5D70-9AA2-40F1-9C6B-1
Open HijackThis and remove the nasties - which you think are bad - displayed from the log file on the website.
* Remember that not all the nasties displayed are actually bad, so please be careful when selecting which entries you want to be deleted when using HijackThis.
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I assumed that it was recently installed, but not correctly removed due to the entry displayed below:
O9 - Extra button: PartyPoker.com - {B7FE5D70-9AA2-40F1-9C6B-1
Open HijackThis and remove the nasties - which you think are bad - displayed from the log file on the website.
* Remember that not all the nasties displayed are actually bad, so please be careful when selecting which entries you want to be deleted when using HijackThis.
# Nerd
Hmmm, puter_geek's suggestion seems promising to me ("Is your Shift Key stuck by chance?"). I didn't know the scroll wheel could do this, but in Firefox, when I hold the shift key down, my scroll wheel goes back and forward through the page history, pretty much like you describe, WestonGroup, in your original post. As far as the flickering goes, I bet that's just some simple visual stuttering on Windows's part. I've seen it before.
A while ago, I had the right answer to a question here that involved the Windows key being stuck and giving intermittent contact: https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21876812/My-Computer-opens-randomly-when-typing.html
Ask yourself: knowing what spyware is, is it likely that it would change the behaviour of the scroll wheel? Don't be misled by the fact that this is occurring in a browser. Perhaps a spyware infection is possible, but I'd try a different keyboard first (or just unplug the keyboard entirely and surf mouse-only as a test). A simple physical / electrical issue would account for this problem.
And I don't think it's the mouse at fault. If the mouse wheel had intermittent contact or something of that nature, we would not expect unusual behaviour, just unreliable but otherwise normal behaviour.
A while ago, I had the right answer to a question here that involved the Windows key being stuck and giving intermittent contact: https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21876812/My-Computer-opens-randomly-when-typing.html
Ask yourself: knowing what spyware is, is it likely that it would change the behaviour of the scroll wheel? Don't be misled by the fact that this is occurring in a browser. Perhaps a spyware infection is possible, but I'd try a different keyboard first (or just unplug the keyboard entirely and surf mouse-only as a test). A simple physical / electrical issue would account for this problem.
And I don't think it's the mouse at fault. If the mouse wheel had intermittent contact or something of that nature, we would not expect unusual behaviour, just unreliable but otherwise normal behaviour.
Glad you found our suggestions helpful :)
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